8 Mr. Morgan's Account of the Araahosac, 



jnoinitains to the east of U'iMatwa's people, and about the 

 sources of the Buffalo River. 



Their want of skill in computation, and their ignorance of 

 the real number of people that are under the command of the 

 different chiefs, make it very difficult to ascertain with correct- 

 ness the amount of the population of their couiitry ; though the 

 following calculation of the strength and numbers of those 

 people may not therefore be quite correct, yet it is as near so as 

 circumstances would permit it to be made, and will afford a 

 pretty accurate knowledge of the strength of each chief. The 

 whole population of the west part of Cafferland appears thus 

 to amount to 150,000, men, women, and children. The male 

 population is above 2j,000, of whom about 16,000 only are 

 warriors; but when any favorite expedition is engaged in, many 

 others flock to the standard of their chiefs, and swell their 

 ranks to a greater number. 



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The following is the estimated population of Cafferland : — 



Under whose command. Men. Women Total. 



and Children. 



U'Gika's Sons and Uncles 6000 .. 30,000 .. 36,000 



U'BoUiraan 2000 .. 10,000 .. 12,000 



U'Queno 3000 .. 15,000 .. 18,000 



U'Dushanie and Children 4000 .. 20.000 .. 24,000 



UnTlilambe and Children 500O .. 25,000 .. 30,000 



UnPhundis 2000 .. 10,000 .. 12,000 



Congo and Family 3O0O .. 15,000 .. 18,000 



Total 25,000 125,000 150,000 



The amount of the military force of Cafferland is above 

 18,000, of which number any enterprising chief might bring 

 12,000 together, to support him in any measure that woald 

 meet with the universal ajiprobation of the Caffer chiefs. 



There are frequent skirmishes between the people of the 

 different chieftains, most commonly arising from disputes 

 between Herdsmen respecting water and pasturage, or acts of 

 aggression on those who are not under their authority. The de- 

 sertion of some wealthy individual from his own chief to another, 

 is also a frequent cause of dispute, aTid these sometimes can only 

 be decided by an appeal to arms. These skirmishes have lately 

 seldom led to any serious war, for some of the neighbouring 

 chiefs generally interfere, and a fine of cattle is received for 

 the offence that has given rise to the dispute. 



Though I have hitherto spoken of those people as a nation 

 existing under the regular control of acknowledged rulers, yet 

 we must hear in mind that the political union of all rude nations 

 is so very incomplete, their civil regulations so few, and the 

 authority to enforce those regulations bo very feeble, that they 



